“Those who were born in the U.S.S.R. and those born after its collapse do not share a common experience,” wrote Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015. “It’s like they’re from different planets.”

A reassessment of the calm, cool JFK.

How Moscow State university discriminated against Jewish applicants using deceptively simple problems.

On nostalgia for Communism.